{"id":3595,"date":"2020-08-07T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:58:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T21:58:34","slug":"from-covfefe-to-aunt-jemima-r-i-p-trademarks-in-the-era-of-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/from-covfefe-to-aunt-jemima-r-i-p-trademarks-in-the-era-of-black-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"From Covfefe to Aunt Jemima R.I.P.–Trademarks in the Era of Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In my day job as an intellectual property lawyer I’ve been blogging occasionally about the strange new world of trademarks that began three years ago with the explosion of trademark registration applications for the 7-letter typo in one of Donald Trump’s late-night Tweet complaints about what he claimed was “fake news.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following that trademark silliness was this year’s explosion of registration applications for variations on the term COVID-19. Those applications now number more than 350 and even include one referring back to the Trump typo: COVID-19 TAKES DOWN COVFEFE (Serial No. 88849328).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n